Senior Software Development Engineer , Open Data Analytics Fundamentals Team, Open Data Analytics Fundamentals Team

Amazon EMR is a web service which enables customers to run massive clusters with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark Hive Presto Hadoop HBase and more with the ability to effortlessly scale up and down as needed. We run a large number of customer clusters enabling a variety of customer use cases including analytics and web-scale machine learning. The AWS DBS EMR organization is doing innovative work on these open source data processing frameworks with the goal of making EMR the best place to run big data workloads. A critical part of this goal is delivering top speed for EMRs big data frameworks.

The AWS EMR Developer & Productivity team is looking for exceptional engineers to help in our mission to provide the worlds fastest cloud Big Data processing platform. As part of our team you will build and improve benchmarking frameworks that underpin AWS Analytics optimization efforts. Your features will automatically schedule analyze and evaluate the differences between experimental regression and production workloads and respective baselines. The features should automatically detect and correlate performance anomalies using team-developed ML models and will enable engineers to visually deep-dive their optimizations impacts. The features should also be highly-extensible. The features should support all of AWS Analytics engines (with a focus on Spark Iceberg and Trino) and will enable further enhancements to be rapidly delivered by engineers across AWS Analytics.

Successful candidates will exhibit software development skills and demonstrate an understanding of distributed systems and parallel data processing. You should not only have a strong record of delivery but also excel at leadership and customer obsession and have a real passion for massive-scale computing. By joining our team you will get to collaborate with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry and work on software and systems. Youll enjoy a competitive salary great benefits a creative and agile work environment and the exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and growing team and one of the most innovative technology companies - but most of all you will get the satisfaction of making products that millions use everyday to great effect!

To learn more about EMR:
* AWS EMR: AWS Big Data Blog: job responsibilities
- Designing and building the next-generation technologies ensuring that EMR is the best environment for running large-scale data processing workloads.
- Working on complex problems in distributed systems and query engines.
- Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
- Deliver systems and features with top-notch quality on time.
- Own the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

A day in the life
Your role requires deep technical expertise leadership acumen a passion for software data and infrastructure solutions excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to deliver results in a dynamic environment. You must be adept at managing complex software products translating business cases into technical requirements and creating reliable scalable solutions.

Youll engage in diverse technical activities coding in Java and other popular programming languages or exploring innovative technologies in big data. Your expertise in building stable and scalable software and data solutions along with your experience in databases and designing parallel systems will be invaluable.

About the team
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- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Redmond - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually